Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1928, Page 36

-~ 2 JdE EVENING STAR ‘cmmns' Assoclations relates to the val- With Sunday Morning juation and capitalization of the pro- SUNDAY.. T New ¥ Ral The Rate by Member of the Associated Press. s Assoctated Press 1s exclusivels eniitien se for republication of ail uews dis ies crediad (o 1 ™ this paper bished herein ®f special dispatoh T to the pa Tied WASHINGTON, D.C . .February 19, 1928} L1h St and Pennayivan X 110 East 4 Chicago Office: Dower Buildi European Oftice te o TIEODORE W. NOYES 2 Evening Star Newspaper Company | Rusiess Oty + ing M tk Office 14 R England ST mng and Sunday Star 4 s e _max be sent 1 by mail or & n 3000 A o l—Payable in Maryland and Virginia Pair ant Sundag aniy n cgent St London. by Carrier Within the S 45¢ per n 4007 1 ma t ot also the el pews | rights of publicatiun © aleo roserved e i The Arbitration Resoluticn. Unanimous acceptance by the Havana eonference of a resolution adopting. on | behalf of the American republics. “ob. Lgatory arbitration as the means which employ for the pacific settle- they wil ment of the international differences ©of a juridical nature” may be set down &s the ouistanding accomplishment of - Editor Ave 2 St v wih | computed. with what accuracy remains B0 prr nront Be per « nth | n clephone Advance. cwise cred | ‘ob- ‘poaed combined corporation and to the guarantee of a profit of seven per cent. Upon these two questions the Public { Utilities Commission must pass judg- {ment. The people’s counsel holds with | the federation’s committee that the | capitalization is excessive and that there should be no seven per cent guarantee {of profit. Tha proponents of the merger {will be called upon to defend the valuation upon which fair rates and profits will be based and the principle of profit guarantee. It hes already been u | to be determined. that the rate of fare njwould on the proposed capitalization | and a seven per cent guarantee be dou- bled. Inasmuch as all that the public ;can derive as bonefit from the merger {of the companies is a possible reduc- | tion of fare incident to roduced ex- ¢ | penses. this charge that the fare rate " | may actually be increased materially {s calculated to evoke a strong public re- sistance to a consolidation which will | destroy competition and will yield | nothing in the way of economy for the | patron of the car and bus lines - - - {Advantages of Capital Residence. In the report of the Houss appropria. | tions committee on the District appro- { priation bill in justification of the re- tention of the lump sum principle the | appropriations committee, citing the rate of taxation operative here, men- tions the “added advantages enjoyed | by the people of the District under the | privilegz of residence in the Capital lCity." These advantages are | enumerated, nor is any indication given {of the bearing of them. such as they { may THE SUNDAY than usual, but reports do not indlcate that there was any exceptional crowd- ing considering the hour, when all of the ferry boats are heavily loaded. There mey never be a satisfactory explanation of this peculiar accident, | Fortunately help was at hand and was {effectively rendered so that the losses | were low. Nevertheless the sacrifice of eight lives in such conditlons is shock- ing and it is to be hoped that the cause of the accident will be determined so as to prevent any recurrence by future precautions. - e “Filth and Trash. There is no reason for excitement or unusual perturbation over the activities of the organized atheists.” One has a jright to adopt such a philosophy and to scek the companionship of others holding similar belief, or disbelief. There 1s nothing new in atheism, and that | part of the constitution of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, Inc.. which states its object as being “to abolish belief in God" is about as old as the world is old. But if the clandestine attempts of perverted individuals to distribute so- called atheistic literature among school | children continues, it is the duty of the school officials, assisted by the police de- partment, to catch them by the scruff of the neck and hold them up to the light of public examination. Sincere efforts to organize “Junior Atheist Leagues" | among school children might be laughed offt and the matter referred to the safe-keeping of parents. But the na- ture of the material sccretly placed in not | some of the schools where it is to be | {found by the students is a matter for more serious concern. In addition to its e. upon the question of taxation. ! blasphemy, it is designed to stimulate | this gathering. now about to disperse. | The committee procceds, however. to | crotic curiosity and morbid conclusions. If the not. only attainment after these | gram. ‘weeks of discussion it would in itself | }uhich it says “has its place in the Justify the conference as having been | peautification and expansion of Wash- worthwhile. e family For it records.the West- of nations as keeping in | proceeds to the conclusion that the ington and the District of Columbia.” It step with the leading powers of Eu- lump sum of $9.000.000 recommended m?(' (I! ?095 not go be{ond (hfll» It |in the bill “represents a fair and just Tetains the old qualification of “inter-| pederal contribution to the District of national open. &s in the past arbitration those differences that are differences”: leaves a dooT Cojumbia toward the expenses of the by excepting from | eity.” held to be not juridical. It should be praised as such. for N0 | tractive 3 { iveness of Washington from a lo- difficult goal can be reached excepl | ca) fiscal point of view, it has decided through a succession of steps. Before accepting at its face value the Havana resolution for obligatory arbi- tration. however. it is well to remember ays practical admonition against counting chicks before they are hatched. When the first Pan-American Confer- ence met in Washingtion, in 1889, the most talked about and the most impor- tant subject on the agenda was the formulation of a draft treaty for com- the s Ppulsory arbitration. them ratified it. At the second conference in Mexico | City. in 1901, taken €=pul tes which, favorable action was | The treaty was written to make arbitration of all dis- | putcs—except these involving a na- tion's independence—obligatory. Eleven ©f the nations. including the United States, signed this treaty, but none of But it is a step. on a protocol in which the American republics recognized as a part of “public international American | law” the principles of the first Hague conference for pacific settlement of in- ternationa! disputes: several Bpaticns signed a treaty for compulsory arbitration of all disputes, and seven- teen of them. including the United States. entered into a treaty for com- Ppulsory arbitration of pecuniary claims. The third and fourth conferences did HNitle or nothing to extend the prin- ciples of arbitration. The fifth confer- ence in Saptizgo, Chile, in 1923, brought | out a treaty for pecific settlement of | subsequently and to of the | While the Government’s building pro- | gram will unmistakably add to the at- | disadvantages. Every square of ground | that is taken as a site for a Federal { bullding is removed from the taxable | area. Congress has just authorized an appropriation of $25,000,000 for the purchase of the now privately owned property lying within the Mall-Avenue triangle. Which means that within a few years $25,000,000 worth of property will be taken out of the tax lists. Inas- { much as the District is confined within | inelastic boundaries, it follows that as this process of Government ownership and construction continues the tax bur- den falls more and more heavily upon the areas remaining in private hands. There can be no compensatory addi- Thus it is plain that the public build- ! ing program cited by the appropria- tions committee. inferentially as a rea- |son for the reduction of the Govern- i ment’s contribution to the Districl | maintenance, actually operates as a rea- ison for a larger participation in the | cost of conducting the Capital munici- | pality. While the Government's share | of District maintenance has never been viewed as in lieu of taxes, it is assured- ly paradoxical that as the United States | takes more and more of the taxed lands | for its own uses it under the lump-sum plan pays relatively less and less in | District maintenance. The advantages which can be trans- muted into fiscal terms and are enjoyed @ate. has been ratified by Brazil, Chile, | by the residents of the District in enjoy- Cubs. Guatemala, Haiti, Paraguay, the | Tent of the privilege of living at the s2at United States and Venezuela. This|©f Government are not stated. There treaty refers disputes to a commission are, to be sure, cena!neduutlomloppox-‘ ©f inquiry. the findings of which are tunities through proximity to the legis- | to bs considered only as reports and | lative, judicial and administrative func- have no force as judicial decisions or Jons of the Federal system. There may be arbitral awards The intent of the Some social advantages. though of these treaty is evidently that of the famous the great majority of Washingtonians Brran conciliation treaties which pro- -are wholly unconscious. The fact that wide a “cooling off” interval to lessen this is the seat of Government imposes the possibilitics of war. £0 the conference at Havana has maintaining a high standard of munici- merely again attempted to make an ef- pal equipment and administration. The fective treaty between the Americas for | city was planned by the Capital makers odilgalory arbitration world progress in this direction since heavy expenses in development and up- 1229, there i= more hope now for suc- | keep. The schools must accommodate sy than zt any time during the last | the children of Pederal officials, the po- | And the Havana thirty-nine years conference has wisely referred upon the community the necessity of In the light of on a broad scale, inevitably involving Unes laid down in its resolution. W & 4 gogle 1o meet the Pederal needs. The eonference of plenipotentiary Juriscol- sdvantages are with the United States sulis who sre 1o meet in Washingon Sovernme ather than with the mem- within & year. A greal opportunity pers of the community lies within the grasp of this conference - B v make of arbitration a forceful in- strument for maintaining peace instead ting it 85 a pre w oonstruct pleasant phrases for v sides Pesple’s Counsel and Merger. Announcen e pr Goes nov chot & imporiant diplo L] Foevarty lues comp s he sirest a1 merger sgrecment in i form s 3 consunance with the the creation of that iies Cominis- 1o U enascunent v % e when Use Puulic L ciple us or st [ .- w he desires sidency, Charies E B Loy he w sioi was renigaliwd of tis lsw Congrens recognined the 1 P Lt fur u it ot 16 sh x TeorgpnIzation WuiGure A People's Counse! persons Join the public Stee of the Federalion of n ot uld e n oppr ays on onsel theme upon W run Hughes idle when there work W be oon: auty wr commission on offi- sepresentative of tne public weltare creaed W sssure the Politics begins to resemble pugllism in the custom of allowing a long talk v precede the actuzl fight S The San Francisco Bay Disaster. Mystery stiil ahrouds the cause of the accident in San Prancisco Bay Fri- day which It 1s now the death of elght passengers on a ferry boat. The steamer, & modern craft enuipped with all modern safety ap- plances and capable of carrying 4.000 wes crossing the bay with a neuvy load of commuters during the rush hour when, about three-quarters ot the distance o hes destination, she lusched and many of thowe on the Jower forward deck were swept over the ide by 8 wa that surged upon the An unknovn number were thus piunged int the waters of the bay Ui Most of them were rescued, but wt latest gecounts elght were missing and may be counted s dead. There at the prow was no heavy sea on the bay al) The boat was agey was vinible Wi g W the ul Witk gy crouded A passing stzamer bnd left Lok s poutes. schedules and TeWE y yae bul this wis not sufficient W e furet pmbller Of MnpOrtance sunpmerge the prow of the ferry boat s cune brtore Whe uUEs GO e craft witer il fisst lurch tighted under the new la 00 e et and sopped Une peoplss counstl | Investigations are Wi progress W de- is Aoy CLarged Wilh TEEDUL- ermige the cause of Lhe accldent. Pre- Blily of Fepresenting Uik U US| uginary opinlons are Lo the effect that St Ve msUT Of e propsed merger coanil k The propie n entirety fien Ly the fe the merger plun wili [ i i the ¥ miung with lajentions tho il g e Lt pr on il bt two oposels by i oViions e wrlilen went fur u b Bg or e o sehoul chlares Lo of & lebar e ot wAOptea |1, tue Lype or e lready o & commitiee He snunounces 1hast he sints i tage crtehs not due in any wise the munsgement of the the disaster w terry Lot bul was the result of sume W frear conmition 10 wis as though a Lidel weve had swept thiough the hay e hut B other steamer wes affected. This o wlone sutfored from Ui enveloping tions to the taxable area of the District. | belleved caused ' time and no eommotion of the waters | ot unusual- | ction represented. as it does | speak of the large Federal building pro- | It is the dirty and stupid production of | involving nearly $92,000,000, | soiled minds, and has little or no bear-i The ! {ing on the doctrine of atheism. good right arms of some of our high school athletes might be enlisted and used in a determined cffort to find and such trash. i e e B A Crime Alarm. | New York City is getting to be an un- heaithy place for criminals. {of the Baumcs laws materfally de- | creased crime in that city because of |the stiffness and certainty of long prison sentences. Yesterday, however, the big town bandits received another jolt in the midriff when Mayor Walker offi- | ciated at the inauguration of a new po- |lice signal system. which, within two | minutes after an alarm is sounded, de- ilivers to every station in Manhatian a written report of the cxime. From the !central station at headquarters mes- |sages can be sent on a printing ma- i chine which automatically rewrites at |each station house the original report and two carbon copics. The chances of mistake are thereby lessened, much time is saved, and the criminal's get- away perlod is reduced by a large mar- | gin. New York 1s engaged in a perannial fight with th® underworld and must canstantly devise mew methods to win the battle. Washinglon, perhaps, does not need such a system at the present time, but it would be well for every | eity to study the methods used in New ! York for eventual installation in their own departments. Science has come to the aid of the law in this device for | the protection of citizens of New York and other crime-infested cities cannot afford to ignore this aid. Stff and sure penalties coupled with instant and far-flung alarms will do much to safe- guard communities from the denizens |oi the halfworld. i B | | Polson in alcohol may leave it a mat- i ter of doubt when some convivial party | may find itself transformed into a suicide club. Wall Street must be expected occa- jslonally to call attention to the fact (that the market cannot keep forever going one way ) Several Statcs are making a “favorite adopted son” a prominent figure in ad- vance political demonstrations. SV, A prohibition agent, active in en- forcing the law, should at least con- i sider it desirable to try moral suasion before shooting. s A tendency 15 noteworthy among ofl lice and fire departments must protect | interests to realize that they can Aind |a record never the Pederal properties, the whole munci- tuzl drafiing of the treaty. zlong the o) cquipment must be maintained on luoublc enough without hunting for it | among themselves - ) SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Mr. Lazyman. O Mr Lazyman, what you goin’ to do? You used to doze the hours away, From sunrise to the twilight ray, And welcome dreams anew. Now you try tor golfing—and maybe tennis, 00 You frankly say it's tollsome play. ‘There 1 no real holida: What are you going to do? ' Legislative Arena. “Have you ever been tempted to en- | gage In physical encounter?” “No. sir,” answered Benator Borgaum ‘When a man of my prominence i | ready for pugilism 1t would be more than foolish for him to sacrifice his dignity without arranging W have Tex Rickard sell tickets.” Unnoted. A man there 1 who dwells obscure His lot 15 ensy o endure Nobody he has killed us yet, And. somehow he keeps out of debt Jud Tunkins says & smart man is fone who knows when to listen and pretend o be dumb The Fool Killer “Are yau in tavor of putting polson 0 ulconol?” “No' smid Uncle BIll Bottetop. A | mun who drinks hootleg liquor may be foolish But 1 dow't believe In giving the fool Killer o much suthority «ll of & sudden | “Me who plays politics” sald Hi Ho, tie sage of Chinatown care in selecting playmates above chvating Thought Transter Wl wrt of politics bs fine, adequately deal with the purveyors of | Enactment | nust have & | who wre | FEBRUARY 1 STAR, WASHINGTON. 1928—PART EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D,, LL. D., Bishop of Washington | Tt was said concerning him, “He knew | what was in men.” This He disclosed | repeatedly in all His contacts with men {and wom-n. He literally penetrated | beneath hard and stubborn surfaces. He |saw behind rugged exterfors great soui “Keep this forever in the imagina- tion of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their hearts unto Thee."—I Chronicles, rriz:18. “Imagination in Religion.” “He has imagination”—this s | AR BHC what we frequently say concerning one | “oppa place imagination has in religion who has ho capaciy o nppreciate the |y g'conspicuous one, Without it there {fner things of life. The place that|can pe little of religious sontinient and | imaginotion plays in all the practical | yoihing of religious devotion. No life | conceras of our daily life is irge and [T Theace with dtself or the world conspiczous. It is not. somethinz that | ihot“ JUCC 10 aamit the higher . im- has to do merely with the artistic |, i and influences that surge about | things of life, or even the emotional | i gateway. the gateway of the imagi- | things of life. It enters into the every- | o &5 TG Tt BETRNS O demanding day experience of our commonest con-|,qmicsion. Those who dream dreams { cerns."The man who lacks Imagination | aid weo visions are more important (o in the conduct of his business Proves |jifa than those who, with mathematical inefficient and _ultimately a_failurc.. | aocuracy. measure Spaces of weigh dio { The statesman who lacks it is incom- | oricalcatate thel favEmeEnt petent to deal with the large CONCETNS | of the spheres. Dull, indeed, would life lof public affairs. Imagination is not h we had nothing else but scientists a quality of rund that belongs to the | gng mathematicians; no. the men who | dreamer, the artist. the poet, the lit-|geop the imagination fresh and young terateur—it is a part of the Normal|and the heart tender are the pathfind- mental equipment, or, shall We Say.|ers foy their fellows in life's great ac- heart cquipment of every one of us.{yjon Religious faith is not something To go through life without exercising | that we can demonstrate as we can a the imagination means to fail to see | mathematical problem. The conception the things that are the most eflective | 0t"God and the universe, our o soul and beautiful. It is curious to note gnq eternal life—these are not things how the imagination in some people that we may submit to the close scru- seems to be highly developed in certain | ;i "and analysis of the laboratory: they | directions and practically inoperative 1 | pelong to and have their field of opera- | deat, had such high inner perceptions of harmony that he was able to com- pose the great symphonies without ever |hearing a single note. Some one ob- serving Turner working on a beautiful landscape said as he saw the arist. with his brush and palette ana can- vas, I have been studying your work. and, for the life of me, I cannot see the thing you are painting Quick- Iy the great artist responded, “Don't i u wish you could?” The observer had not the imagination to see what the | painter saw. - The great preacher, Hor- ace Bushnell, maintained that imagina- tion was one of the divine attributes God had given to man. He once said. “God declared at the creation, I have made man, but I have no gateway by which to enter his life. So He gave | man another gift—the imagination—as the doorway of approach to his soul.” In Jesus Christ we see imagination exercising fiself to the highest degree. {to place limitations upon the field of | {our imagination. More and more w restrict its arca. This is largely dis- cl in what we call “our emotional |life.” the things of the affections. Thos> | who retain their youthful outiook upon | life are inevitably those who keep their imagination fresh and young. “To elevate the more than reasoning mind, And color life's dark cloud with Orient rays. | Imagination is that sacred power, | Imagination, lofty and refined.” | Thus, the poet Wordsworth speaks of | the tunction and purpose of the imagi (nation. To “color life's dark cloud with | Orient rays” means to give religion, the cultivation of the spiritual in our na- ure, s large place, its unembarrassed field of operation. This means to at- tain to that which Jesus came to give: namely, “the more abundant life.” NEVADA’S DIVORCE BUSINESS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. | | What legislation can and may dnivldv for one year, conviction of felony for business is shown by the unofficial | or infamous crime. habitual gross report that the number of divorces in Nevada in 1927 was approximately | three times t number for the pre- ceding year. The increas is attributed largely if not wholly to the law passed | by the Nevada Legislature in March of last year, which makes it possible |to get a divorce in that State after | three months' residence instead of six and establishes insanity as an addi- tional ground for divorce. The actual number of divorces granted in Nevada in 1926 was 1.021. | While the estimate for 1927 places the | | figure at more than 3.000. In all the State barely 223 divorce suits had been | filed last vear up to the time of the enactment of the new law, so it is ap- parent that there is sound basis for crediting legislation with the sudden boom in the buciness And divorce 15 one of the major in- dustries In Nevada. More than 95 per cent of the suits filed and determined | i there are what are known as imported |cases, the parties beinz persons who | :cnmc into ths Siate and estabiish a! | residence for the sole or primary pur- pose of securing a divorce. This means that a great amount of outside money is brought into the State and expende for rents, living. luxuries, attorney fees. court costs, and the iike. No resords be compiled of the money so ex- 'nded, but it has been ectimated that a Nevada divorce ccsts from $500 to $5.000. the average probably being nearer the latter figure than the o, egate it runs into an im n. Obviously 1t is a busi consarved, to be built | he Legislature so con- the new law was |passed and the business immediately fourished. i Prior to last year the business had bzen on an even kel for a considerable {period. The number of divorees grant- led annually ran from 1,000 to 1100, | the highest number recently being 1,082 in 1925, The Banner Diviree State. ‘ The number of divorces granted each |vear is not so large, save when it is considered on the ba of population, when it suffices to make Nevada far and away the banner divorce Staie of the Unian. Nevada's divorce rate per 1,000 of population ranged from 13.25 in 1922 {to 1398 in 1025, falling o 13.25 agamn in 1926, year, on the estimated 3,000 di- It soared to almost 39 per 1,000, | remotely approached by |any other State in the United States | #nd probably never equaled in any other country in the world unless it be Rus- | sia. Nevada's 1927 record is more than 10 times that of any other State and |more than 25 times that of the United States as a whole, which was 1.52 per ! 1,000 population tn 1926 drunkenness contracted since the mar- riage. extreme cruelty and insamty ex- isting for two years prior to the fihnz of the suit. Newpda is now one of but two States in which absolute divorces are grante:d on the grounds of insanity withou some condition required other than proof. Idaho is the other. In Alaba a divorce may be granted for inc insanity T the party has been cc fincd m an asvlum for 20 vears. Con- necticut and Nerth and South Dakota | grant divorces for insanity after th> party has boen confined five law of the first named State stij ing that the insanity must be incut- | able. In Washington (State) if eithey | party to the marriage s incurably in- | sane and has been confined five years under order of a court. the court in its | discretion may grant a divorce to the other party. Mississippi grants a di vorce if either party was ins at the time of marriage, and in the Distr of .Columbia. Towa and West Virgt marriages may be annulled on ground. Georgia establishes “men and physical incapacity” as a ground for divorce. Insanity Pladed. Since the new law was passed In! Nevada it is said that tnsamty is being frequently used as a basis for the di- vorce suits that are being filed. In the long Tun. however, most Nevada divorces | are granted on the grounds of extreme | cruelty. with abandonmen: and fal to provide by the husband rati ond and thud | It is but fair to Nevada to state that he divorcas granted there ar: procured through collusion, fraud or perjury on the part of the complain- ants, and that it is extremely difficult to guard against that sort of thiry when so many of the defendants are | non-residents and service must be had upon them by registered mail or by ad- vertisement false statement by the complainant as to the address of the aetendant usually precludes the hikel nood of a contest of the suit When real contests are ma said t Nevada divorces are no to procure those of other wircre the laws provide a similarly wide 1a:ge of aruun(ti for divorce Ba | 8 Buying Groups Proposed | To Protect Home Market vorce: BY HARDEN COLFAN. Confranted in many parts of the world by gigantic combinations, fostered by thelr governments In most cases, which control the supplies of com- modities needed by consumers of the United States, Congress is being asked to authorize the creation of powerful | purchasing associations to protect the domestic market ‘The House judiclary committee last week reported favorably a bill to permit operations by what might be termed In 1925, when Nevada's divorce grist was the largest of recent years, prior to the 1927 boom, the highest divorce rate in any other State was that of 334 | | per 1,000 In Oregon. Oklahoma came {next with a rate of 310, and Wyoming | with 3.00, Texas with 290, Washington | with 273 Montana with 2.71 and Cali- | “benevolent trusts” to import certain fornia with 2.54 followed In the order commedities. Three committce mem- famed. The District of Columbia hady bers presented a dissenting report, tear- the lowest divorce rate—031—and New | ing that the descriptive adjective might | York came next with a rate of 0.41. In|be changed to one less euphonious in {1926 New York's rate remained practi- | some cases unless modifications were | cally stationary, while that of the Dis- | made in the measure triet of Columbia dropped o 0.18 An imposing aray of arganizations | The D vith more than seven | favor this Newton-Jones bill to amend tmes the population of Nevada, had !the Webb-Pomerene export trade act | only 96 divorces in 1026, as compared | 50 as to permit combinations of fmport {with Nevada's 1,021 It is true. how- | ers in certain commoditios to ancrata ever, that the District grants mmn-.-;.f without runntng atoul of the anti- only i the ground of mfidelity, and 1t] trast law, just as the exbting statute | Is probable that both the District and | permits combinations of exporters, r:.\-. York, where mfidelity or dissolu- | [ton on the ground of abyence With 5Up- | Ayerican consumers pay more (han wition of death are the grounds, sup- |4 piion’ : 6 e 5 rou | on dollars w yenr for articles iy plied ::.l.;‘:,:fynmmln-n of the Nevada di- (0" SaUGHon of which the three . . a 1L 1 stated that last year cipal o dittes involved i this | New York sent more divorce seekers m‘} W .:,“ '.‘.'"‘.'"f,::,.,'.; of :,...:.‘, value— | Nevada than did any other State, Call- | yypher sisal and potash. These three | | tornia, which has n fairly high divorce rate dtself, rapking second i bullding are named :smmmuy i the measure, but n general clause would pormit ex- up Nevada's divorce businex tenston of the proposed law o importa- In th umber f divarees wrant= | (O] T BRMRGLES Ll o ced n 1926, Texns led (he Natlon by 84 whioh the United States is wholly or ubstanual margin with 00 L= inly dependent upon fmports as con- | Hola wes goound. With 1¢ and the | gigons might justity - the opinton | | athier runking States were” Ohio, 13070; | S0 BRI SSEIE Gl ercer nd | Caltfornta, 12.065; Missourl, 9,836, Mich- | it the, Beeietat, B0 G ed [iran, 9648, Pennsylvanta, 7.706; Indi- | {0 AHGE 80 GREEY SR waa, 1080, ang Oklahama, o The | camphor and fodiie are largely cont ital for the Natlon wus 180.808. N goieg ™ ny foretgn government mo- nopolies And the 15U appears miore | Houth Caroling out the United Htates last year b the oM Bogrogoicned [do 1 to permit the organteation of ! paried o hive been | 40 M o | b % meriean interests concerned - the | [ 1 the forelgn producers will be confronted been i excess of 4500000 Just what || | y e Unite ser - that »;-lum mean in pertiaps bt |u»;:“[“,“""'|'.,“'; “‘I‘l'l'",',',,f“."_",;:',""',:‘,"‘_;“,,’"l‘1 dicated by citing the tact that the total | Lo ulstio d bl number of i TGO G o e S ot el divorces tor any cause ure granted mi | PRI Wi iy )05 01D, e dart yeq | 4eF the Federal Trade Conmisaion, and UL b o R i YR T the DIl gocn 0t some lensth o xafes 3 probighly not greatly noexcess oF fuygrds to prevent such assoctations Hat from vaising (he price to (e witimate | CONRUINGES OF Brom reesiivs out any Why Nevada Divarees Are Basy o wive and hut for the fact that many st o v o e has into | pessengors had gathered on the lowsr| ANG When & candidats’s In dine | Novida divorecs ere casy of pracyre ‘ll..“",‘.iu.nl AU DS LS 5 il - ; ! His own oo IeimusLsiRk L ment primsnly becawse af (he shont | PR | forward deck b Uil haste W leve | petiod af resdence vequired before a | ! Wi ferry on their bomeward Uip there | A8 WY Lo guess what others think i may e fled, and secondly becawse | Hince 1018, under the Webh:Pamerene possile ot thie coneentiation of bravin® our penntes toh de sake of lm“"‘x i numiber adiltery, tmpoteney. aban- ' feld, t derive efils from common gl teased the prow W osettle lower several dollars 0 throw aw domment o1 Lwo yeurs, lalute W pro- wetion i developing g Iarkets f I - | values, and, secing them, called them | ¥ | operations. Capital Sidelights The industrialization of the reforma- tory at Lorton will soon include a small book bindery, recommended by the United States Burcau of Efficlency, which it s estimated will show a net profit the first year of from $1500 to $2.500. new plant is the rebinding of some 7.000 volumes a year for the District Public | Library. The best price that the Gov- ernment Printing Office quoted on this job was around $1.80 per volume. Last | a Philadelphia concern took the contract for a machine job at 53 to 65 cents per volume. The Washington school system, it s estimated, will have aboud 2,000 books per year that can be rebound econom- ically in this new plant. There are also some 1,500 books per ye: from the public school librarie: The Bureau of Efficiency investigators nave advised the House appropriations committec that between 12,000 and 15,000 volumes per year will be available for rebinding in the proposed refsrma- tory bindery. 0 ‘There are today 224 chiidren of Con- gressmen and their secretaries in the Washington public schools, Representa- tive Holaday of Illinois told the Disirict subcommittee of the House appropria- tions committee during hearings on the District budget. He bascd this figure on a questionnaire which he sent to membars of Congress, three-fifths of whom replied. * * “What is the best system for ecdu- cation of school children?” Represent- ative Casey of Pennsylvania asked that others. Darwin is an example of what | vithii o | tion withiin man’s soul. {we have in mind. It was said of him Lo 1 & b S is- that e had o’ appreciation of Wim | enter his life through the gateway of | Of schoals, during hearings on the D; “concord of sweet sound”: music to . V] P v 1k 2 iright when he said, “The heart hath |lowing reply i was simply a Jargon of Sounds. OB |icasons that the reason knows not Wi~ | “The best system of education for the other hand. Beethoven, though ' aqwa mature in life we have & tender he child is a system of clementary chools and kinderzartens, ol six grad i we shall undertake to do everything we can to give the children the tools of an ecducatio; that is, to give them a fundamental knowlcdge reading. writing. arithmetic, gecgraphy. history and all the traditional subjects taught in an elementary school which are essential for every citizen to have. | abroad fails to uncover objections t any other “As to special subjects, we should |an applicant and immigration officials = country. undertake to develop, the interest of the children in them as well as in the | find lawful reasons for barring him, he college campus has foreign speeial or extra curricula activities of the schools, to give them a proper con- | student develops traits after entrv that home 100 per cent advocates ception of the relationship of one to|are violative of immigration laws or thing American. ideals, | otherwise make him an undesirable stance, a number of another and give them high which are the mainsprings of action in people. - “Then, I believe we should begin def- initely ameng those children, to a lim- | have been admitted and warrants for rights. Some of the students in Ame ited extent in the junior high s beginning with the seventh gr we should begin definitely among thcse children to direct them toward or to assist in directing themsclves toward the kind of thing that they are going to be doing in their future educational careers. In America we must make provision for chil- dren who are going on indefinitely in the schools. We must also make cqual provision—and we are not doing it fully in any American city with which I am familiar—we should give hool. de- equal educational opportunity to chil-| dren who are going to leave school all along the line just as soon as the com- pulsory attendance law permits them to do su. We are trying to do that, but we are not doing it well.” % %% Maj. Hesse. superintendent of the Metropolitan Police Force, has been di- rected by the House appropriations committee to drive the gypsy “phrenol- *off Pennsylvania avenue. He agmitted to the committee that one of these gypsies had held him up last week. He told the committce he knows the gypsies are a nuisance. Th not required to take out a lice cause they call themselves “pk: gists.” and the corporation counsel has ruled that the law does not requirz a license to practice phrenology i the District. e Gen. Anton Stephan, commanding the District National Guard., compiled f Congress a statement of payments mad: by the several States to cnlisted pe sonnel of the State Militta during Sum- mer encampment periods in addition to the pay of grade received from War Ds partment appropriations. as follows Alabama:® 25 cents per day for addi- tional rations. Arizona: §1 per day. Connecticut: 70 cents to $1.15 per day District of Columbia: 50 cents to $1.25 * per day (other than Government em- | ploves only) ¥ ts to 70 cents por da ‘25 cents per day setts: 55 cents per day M:chigan® §1 per day Minnesota: $1 per day. pi Nebraska:® §1 per day w Hampshire: 1 per day W Ji 50 ce: arolina 1 attended Orcgon: 25 cents to $1 per day Pennsylvania: 50 cents per d Rhods Island: 50 cents per day Vermont: 15 cents 1o 40 cents p Washington: 10 per cent longev: The District of Columbia is the only place which makes any distnction be- tween Government d non-Goves ment employes. the appropriation re- oucsted for 1920 and horetofore made each year since 1901 s paid to non Government employes only. a basis drill attendance durig the year rth 1y dril preceding the camp. or since the date of AT enlistment if that be during the 3 Fi operating for American products. port associstions ar the terms of this un As a matter of fact, tive manufac- turers last vear operated 3 531\00%\‘03 rit- rubber-buying pool to combat th ish manopoly which, under the S son plan of that empire, a few ago more than trebled the price crude rubber temporarily and e has held 1t at an artifela high level This pool succeeded n holding rubd; to a maximum fluctuation of 9 e between high and low prices 1ast vear. the greatest stabiligation in the last 20 vears. Bul there is w quastion as to the legality of such pools. and legis- Intion is desired to remove any i rogation mark from this and st ar countr 1 The automabile users of the re most acutely interested in this 8 ton at the moment, in fact. price cons ditions 0 the other commaoditics at is- sue are not now matters of ous oncern. though they may be N | time » o Great Britatn controls more than €3 per cent of the world rubber bt eans sumes only 7 per cent The United States consumes per cent of all rubber in the world. and three-fourths 5 Lof this Ameriean consumpiion gues it automobile tires and tubss With more than 20,000.000 automobiles - this country, 1t s net surprising that e annual tire and tube bill runs around $900.000,000 Under the Brittsh vestrictions. vub. ber has fluctuated to as high as 84 ents a pound above what the prodicers (hemselves firat considered a fair price Every advance of 1 cent a pound costa Flean consumers around $9.000,000 A yeay One Ameriean firm 15 producing rub- ber 0 Sumatra and snother has started plantations i Liberta A third ix ex- perimenting with a Mexioan shrub. But these developments mueh money- 1t is estimated 1t would Cost AR Investment of $300.000.000 (o asstre a supply of rubber under Amer- ean control, and rubber can be grown anly within 10 degrees of (he Equatas ander present conditions An 0 farmers pay tibute an- nuadly to the sisal trust of Mevien tor the material for their binder (wine bal s vadded from 3 W 18 vents @ povind under this forelgn contiol — And ey pay tibute e Franeo-German potesh brust for fertiiser. oo and Whether (his van be veached by the United States GOVernment temams o be detevmined by @ sult which s pending IR PR T The biggest job awalting this | to be rebound | of I nd then on | requite time and ' EW hington to Be BY W AM RUFUS SCOTT. | More foreign students are exp:cted to come to Washington when the new | School of Government of George Wash- | ington University is operating. since the ! facilities of the National Capital in this | respect will be greatly widencd by the addition of the school, and foreign stu- dents, especlally, scck cnlightenment | upon all phascs of political science. ' | In the fiscal year 1927 a total of 1,833 alien students came to schools and col- | { leges In the United States from coun- | | n a quota Lasis and from Asiatic anivics not pormitted to send immi- | | granis en any basis. The figures, how- {evor, do not include insular possessions |of the United States nor the countries | |in North, Central and South America | which have unrestricted immigration | | into the United States. | of the foregoing total, the number | which specified schools In the District ! of Columbia was Under the immi- | gration act of 1924 alien students must the accepted by institutions of learning | that have been recognized by the Sec- retary of Labor as meeting standards which guarantee that no aliens will be | admitted on fals» pretenses. The Sec- | retary had recognized 1,034 such schools at the end of the fiscal year. Congress made a deliberate exception (ot alien students in passing the quota | immigration act. This privilege of studying in the United States neverthe- | less was hedged about with safeguards. | Prospective students must prove to our In fine, they | Question of Dr. Ballou. superintendent | consuls abroad that they are genuinely sceking education, that they will be able | the imagination. After all, Pascal was | trict appropriation bill and got the fol- | to finance themselves Without working foreign students to wish 10 combi here, that they will leave when the courss is completed, that they are not less than 15 ‘vears old and will con. form to other rules and regulations. ! thoy cennot cpeak English. they mu: show that the schoo! which has en | rolled thom will be able to teach non- Hih, ! If the careful examination made in this country at a port of entry should | may be turned back. Moreover, if a alien, he may be deported. During the three fiscal years the immigration act has been in force 5215 alien students | the arrest and deportation of 135 werz | issued. or less than 3 per cent. | ,The causes were not always the fault jof the student. Some became too ill | to continue their studies. some devel- | oped insanity. some came honestly 2nd found their finances inadequate. A few were found to have entered without real | intention of studying, or were expelled | from school for one reason or another. or occasionally became radicals. great maijority were bona fide stus ©f the 5.215 in three years. 1,085 have completed thair courses and returned to their homs ¥ grand divisions the 1,833 ads ed were distributed as follows: urope. 1.057: Asia. 599. Pacific area. 50. Africa. 40, all other. 87. Some of the larger groups came from the follow- ing countries: China. 204: Japan :in- Russia 13 ;land. €2: Turkey. 5 t. 47. Czechoslovakia, 35. China. which cannot send any immi- | gTants to the United States. leads by a | wide margin in the number of students sent It is interesting to recall that about $18,000.000 of the Boxer indem- was given back to China by the ed States, a large part of it to be in educating young Chinese in . ut of the 294 students. out 80 came as Boxer fund stu- { dents. The remainder had to pay their own way. or have it paid for them. . The law also allows students from forsign ccuntrics to come here. under cified conditions. to study our eco- ic iife. by entering banks. steel . etc. while foreign governments | make arrangements with the Departe ment of State for students to enter the | y and Naval Academies at West ' Mecca for Students From Foreign Lands The number of Russian students m~ v seem unusual in view of the fact tha: the Soviet government i3 not recog- nized by the United States. Why could not these students be Communists and coms here as propagandists? it migh. be asked. The answer is the extrgrue care taken to exclude those who aqve- cate the overthrow of our Government. Before a Russian can enter for study he must prove to a consul of the United States that he is of a satisfactory type. Besides, not all such students come directly from Russia. Some ar “White” Russians. exiled by the Red: They are credited, dowever, to their native land. If a student should get in and later develop radical activities within the meaning of our laws he would be de- ported, as shown, just as any other alien would be. Isolated instances of the kind occur. but among aliens here 0 are found to be objectionable the udent class furnishes only a negligi- ble percentage. More than 800 of the 1927 stud were from countries struggling for larger politicaf freedom, such as China. Irdia, Egypt, etc. or from countries which have won autonomy within recent years, such as Finland, Latvia, Esthonia. Lithuania. Poland, Szecho- slovakia, Turkey, Irish Pree State. Jugeslavia, etc. The assumption is that these students see in the United States a political model they wish to study for ideas to use in their native lands. But another strong attraction the immense economic bulk the Unite States now has in world eyes. causin with ecademic and political studie- first-hand contact with our industrial i * & * % Many more foreign students cam- here in 1927 than the 1,833 listed for Ricans an Filipinos, Hawaiians. Porto Ri s an other insular war not counted under the in gration act of 1924. nor are students from Canada. Mexico ov Central and South American Hundreds came from these nearly every American areas so that Not all the foreign stude: In China, for American-educated students turned Col present civil war there ed ag gressively against American treaty can missionary schools tax:: turned against their teaching and instflictors, although there were in- spiring examples of loyalty. Mme. Sun Yat-sen. widow of the founder of the modern republican movement in China, is an example o} an American-educated Chinese Who is now radical. Mme. Sun atiended a Georgia denominational school. Whe the spiit came in the Chinese Russian Communiet alist party_over . activities. Mme. Sun sided with ihe Russians and fled to Moscow. where at last reports she was residing. Re- cently. when Russians were roughly handled at Canten. she sent a cable- gram of protest. Whaiever American political views she absorbed are for the time being side stituted by the United States in the Phulippines. However. that some stu- dents should becoms ardent champions of nationalism. or even occasionally come under the sway of communism. ai denounce the TUnited States as perialistic™ or “capital istic,” is considered to bs offset by th overwhelming number accepting our educational! tality wh ths Ui who turn agital life get a more while some of those of radicalism lat W center of with the special school facilities here and in ¢, there is the National Government fiself as a laboratory af- fording a practical working model of political science. Poreign students will be Able to got academic education and instruction in the theory and practice of government in an unrivaled way. and Annapalis This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. : very much disturbed which was coming the violins espe- ud. s0. after & full dinner of veal cut- d settled himseif down in his by e~ | an| Fa tween his paws, of prayer es had clased. his goose- -green €) h at this time i evening had bagun to de larger and darkes. 1 m ¢ had remained open. thase cat become etely v dark. but Nature, | y porific effect of & full | ach. had clesed them with a touch | of the magic wand of the Sandcat 17 & Sandman for little children. why “fi“ ; Sandcat for our furry friends of the firesi v oxow Yes, the Sandeat had breught slum- bei to Jack Spratt He had touched the up of his white nase with his wand, he had placed a feline benedichion upon the tufls of two ur ears, had waved a spall of E-ar: over the tiger stripes of gray and Yl | So Jack Spratt slept | It was at this mament that we un- warily turned an the radwm. Zawie! as the camio st saying “Its coming i good tonightt we, said. Our radio is & most temperamental radio. so old (Iwo years) m the march Of this art and science that one can | never be sure what tt will do Ps insist on | Sometmes 1toperfarms to perfec- [tan other tmes e i and curses 1t heartly for fts lack of “pep” or de- !cause of ‘strange sounds that creep i and out of the loud speaker One cannet sty condema hows ever. one's sel. when there are so many other factors, including tubes. datteries. chargers, antenna, ground and. adove ail. the broadeasting stations Faithful listeners sometimes inehine to suspect that the broadeasting sta- tan has A great deal o do with the Way one’s set Csow after all . ~ . Just as we seliled back tn the sec- ond best chalr i the room. tent an enjoving the unusual performance of our vadioo the tger cal began o st m the best chatv Jack always geis the best even whon company s present Why not? The cal opened his eyes Wide and wider He ralsed his head. showing his white neck and ahirt fiont He pricked his eans, and gave s [what s calied W the vernacuiar “a Lty koKt Although Jack does not Kiow exnedly What eonneotion we Lave with the radio aet, he seema quite ¢armont (hat we are respanadble for i chatr “Meow ' saild hee halt visng e ow o Nt vou BRo this masie Jack® we wmaquited This time he sumped o chatr and walked acioss cvond best Then he sat back i Ris haunehes, rated B head fooked Al the vadiy ned Bis farge eves back 10w Meon ' he pleaded | AN vighe, Jack " B0 saying, we watked Across the toom | and puahed the awiteh t The muale ovaporaied with - ihat BNE AR ArTIvIng aF the mas ARalt pavement SUL DACk It e chan Fifty Years Ago In The Star With the street rali®ay mergsr pro- 1= posal under public discussion, 8 S Street Car Grievances. s by the loval "rspid ransy of half a century ago ~I destre to oceupy a 1 your valuable paper i reg matter mvolving the oonve: a large majority of Washmgton: smilar cars traves red light going to blus to the Capi desiring W0 g2 always distgush W 0 carry them to Bul now the colors are sumiar eir destination and persons desring 0 0 1 the navy yand or east of the Capital. m the eveain are often turned out of the car i - slement weather at the Naval (Peace Monument and told © war for the next car, to find ft crowded alnost de- yond standing room. “1 will relate soms of my experwncee ¢ the cars traversy i street for the purpose of mg home I was given a transfer at e junction of Mifteenth street. TS I oexpected. though i ovcurmad as 1 wended my way throug 18 drug store hand dy. ax very we the ratnoad COIRPARY might anduce o the comfort of e Passengers Dy providing sune means of shelter at this and the Seventd streel unctian. 1 got the fisd car caming ahng = nent car, the Tents at the tane. decause there wer a B hadut w 1 was e ivensed muwRg 1 sieppud o the ar whetlwe ¢ & poing past the Caguta, 1t dod, T ave steppad off and watted wanied preferrig o do all the wa Al e rather than B sudevied ihe DM anboyasee ai the Naval Moteane at Saturday oveig st dw the tain T howrded & car at Willand s WaAde MY Usual WQuEY. and was formiend By the oadueiar hat he was 1 e ment b owas handed A transde therefre tuasiaiad with e ductor o deveiving me and e man had the asumace R dey 1 Nows ever, 1 got wel and A oo Al and had f stand on e front paatioem 1he SUTAtET PO of the way W e Ay A “The pemedy for ghis masn o ee B very dmpe ane Lod the caarois oxtond thelt toute as far ad the Wals Bl Schont buldtg there i an s o ane s ol e Aveiwe all the way the wase CH becals By e 10Ihe WY vand gate Nast 2 MANNEG and evenug when e &l n v WL TS AR QU ek QUEET SoUnd Wade Whel 4 TaAR Wl s arned ot suddenly K turned b e oy and